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- Short: hardware hack to disable A4000 IDE port (easily reversible)
-
- I've been using this hack on 2 A4000's for several months (since KS upped
- the delay time for IDE drives).
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- Get a 40-pin female IDE header and wire a 5K resistor between pins 3 and 39,
- and between pins 5 and 39.
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- Pins 3 and 5 are the high-order IDE data bits. Pin 39 is the IDE LED
- connection, which is tied high. This hack ties the two high-order IDE
- data bits high, making the ROM immediately skip looking for a drive.
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- Plug the header onto the A4000 motherboard IDE connector, making sure it
- is in correctly.
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- Sean (sriddle@ionet.net)
- <a href="http://www.ionet.net/~sriddle">Please don't hurl on my URL!</a><p>